Christmas is over

Yesterday morning, I went to the Internet in a Christmas spirit. I wrote a diary entry saying it wasn't too late for Hillary to redeem the campaign she's run. I expressed the hope that she could re-connect with the better side of her nature and return to using her great political gifts for someone's benefit other than her own.

The one Hillary person who commented said I was being a sore winner. Well, the grief is still fresh for them. I hope in time they'll come around.

I would have had no objection to Hillary finishing the primary season in a spirit of amicable irrelevance. She could give her supporters a few more victory parties, promote her policy ideas, and work off some of her campaign debt.

But now it's clear that she's determined to lose ugly. She and her surrogates continue to harp - ever less subtly - on "the white vote".

I don't know if she's playing hardball because she still thinks she can cow the superdelegates with race-based fear-mongering - or if she's just trying to extort the Vice Presidency. And I don't care.

Christmas is over. [continued]

It is long past time for the DNC to stop pussyfooting around with Hillary Clinton. If the superdelegates won't get off their asses, I want Dean, Pelosi, and Feinstein to hold a joint press conference publicly calling for Hillary to end [not "suspend"] her campaign.

And if Hillary insists on trying her luck with the Rules and Bylaws Committee, I want them to tell her to shove it up her ass.

•  Tip jar for rage

  by Joe Beese on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:04:39 AM PDT

•  re

  Obama is trying to end this with class.

  Hillary insists on being an ass.

  Please SDs end this now.

  by cookiesandmilk on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:07:55 AM PDT

•  She has made the politician calculation...

  that race will peel off enough supporters (and superdelegates) to throw her the nomination.

  I have made the calculation that I cannot nor do NOT want to support a candidate who sacrifice stated ideals like yesterday's soiled underwear for the benefit of aggrandizing electoral power.  The race baiting has NO place in the Democratic Party.  Let the Republicans do it.  No doubt HRC, like Lieberschmutz, has sold her soul to Karl Rove, in exchange for the whispered poison balm of his advice on these matters.  Maybe this presages a run to the Repubs.  Whatever.  I just can't go there.  And neither should the Party.

  by mayan on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:09:58 AM PDT

  •  E-mailed you...

    Here's our diary working group page.

    http://www.dailykos.com/...

    I'm pissed, and I'm fighting back.  Join us.

    by David Kroning on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:14:28 AM PDT

  •  Her Calculation Is Incorrect

    She's bleeding delegates, and Obama's gaining them.

    by karateexplosions on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:15:29 AM PDT

•  Jon Stewart suggesting to McSame

  a Hillary VP choice.....maybe it wasn't a snark.

  by gdwtch52 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:16:17 AM PDT

•  I'm wondering if she doesn't want to be pushed

  I'm wondering if she doesn't want to be pushed out of this thing, so she can claim that she "never gave up" and that somebody "forced" her to quit... and can then play victim.  Then she'd have more of an excuse not to support Obama, to work to see him fail, and then - if he loses in November - claim "I told you so."

  I don't like playing around with candidates like they're comic book superheroes or supervillians and doing a lot of conspiracy-theory junk, but... it does make you wonder what her point really is now.  We've gone from "slim" to "none" already.   I mean, she can run if she wants, but this divisive "white people don't like Obama" junk (which is news to this-here white boy!) isn't helping the party at all.

  by shadetree mortician on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:26:21 AM PDT

  •  This really made me think. I sure hope this is

    not possible (for the chance to say I told you so).  And I want to say it would not be possible for one reason.  There is likely 2 supreme court nominations to come up in the next 4 years and if it were McCane making the selections and the bendover Senate approving, her legacy for women would be ruined forever.  She must know this.

    So I am going to take her at her word that she wants a Dem president and will work for BHO if he wins.  He's just got to get to the magic delegate number before she gives up.

    by dogheaven on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:47:23 AM PDT

•  Aren't things like this usually done behind

  the scenes?  Wouldn't a committee, say like Schumer and Emanuel, approach her and make the suggestion that she bow out gracefully now or bear the consequences?  

  What she's doing is endangering the Democratic party even if she's trying to convince the leaders of this party that what she's doing is good not only for the party but for democracy.

  I personally resent that the superdelegates are or have become a voting bloc to be courted or swayed.  This is wrong.

  by nupstateny on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:04:57 AM PDT

  •  Apparently she's not listening

    Feinstein told a reporter "I'm going to ask Hillary what her plan is." That's a politician's way of announcing "Hillary, you're embarrassing yourself now."

    And she added the detail that Hillary hasn't returned her call.

    The gloves have to come off. Hillary's ruthless determination to prove a spoiler has to be framed as such by senior party officials.

    Then if Hillary is ready to commit political suicide by taking this to the convention, she can spend every day between now and then enduring the scorn and ridicule she deserves.

    by Joe Beese on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:24:32 AM PDT

    •  She's depending on

      Sciaffe and Murdock to come through for her.  That could be next week, who knows?  Then Obama would be a thing of the past and she'd be the winner.

      by nupstateny on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:33:16 AM PDT